Process of producing syrup from beets.



NITED STATES FFICEt WILLIAM C. PETERSEN, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA, ASSIGNOR TOOMAHA BEET SYRUP AND CHIOORY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PROCESS OF PRODUCING SYRUP FROM BEETS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 669,659, dated March 12,1901.

Application filed July 28, 1900. Serial No. 25,197. (No specimens.)

1'0 a, whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, WILLIAM C. PETERSEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of 5 Nebraska,have invented a new and .useful Process of Producing Syrup from Beets,of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a process of producing syrup from saccharineroots, and particularly from beets ordinarily termed sugar-beets; andthe primary object in View is to produce a syrup of high quality whichwill not crystallize and form sugar and Will not ferment. I 5 Incarrying out my improved process the boots in their original conditionor, in other words, without previous rasping or abrading are subjectedto a boiling heat in water at atmospheric pressure, any suitablekettle,recep- 2o tacle, 01' vessel being employed for that purpose, andas nearly as possible the boilingtemperature-approximately2l2Fahrenheit-is maintained for a period of twohours or more, according to the quality of the beets, with the resultthat the salts in the beet are drawn to the surface and accumulatebetween the body or meat of the beet and the skin. The beets are thenremoved and carefully skinned to avoid injury to the pulp, after whichthey 0 are again subjected for another period of two hours to a boilingtemperature in Water to remove any adhering traces of the salts and tothoroughly soften the beets. The cooked and skinned beets are thenpressed by any 3 5 suitable means,and the expressed j uice,which is richin saccharine matter, may be subjected to defecation. For instance, asmall quantity of charcoal, preferably bone-charcoal, may be placed withthe syrup in a suitable kettle and subjected to heat for a period of,say, ten minutes, after which the charcoal may be removed by filtration.Finally the juice should be boiled down to the desired consistency. Itwill be understood that the boiling down of the juice is merely to give5 the same the thickened or syrup consistency common to maple-syrup andthe like.

After having subjected the beets to the process which I have describedas my invention the main product or syrup is non-crysso tallizable andmay be kept for any length of time without the formation orprecipitation of sugar-crystals. Moreover, the syrup does notdeteriorate with age and fermentation does not ensue. The syrup made bymy process is of a light-yellow or golden color, and when clarified bysubjection to the action of charcoal and subsequent filtration the coloris still further brightened, so as to closely resemble maple-syrup.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The herein-describedprocess of obtaining saccharine juices from beets, consisting in boilingthe beets in Water, skinning the boiled beets, reboiling the beets afterthey are skinned, and expressing the juices therefrom.

2. The herein-described process of making noncrystallizable beet-syrup,consisting in boiling beets in water, skinning the boiled 7o beets,reboiling the beets after they are skinned, extracting the saccharinejuices therefrom, defecating said juices and boiling down the same tothe desired consistency.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM C. PETERSEN.

Witnesses:

E. E. DOYLE, HARRY H. HOLLANDER.

